Karin Van Nieuwkerk
Biographic Data
| ID | 91106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Van Nieuwkerk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Nieuwkerk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN NIEUWKERK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9043-6929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Islam Is My Washing Line”
Although conversion is an ongoing religious journey, it is rarely studied as such. This article provides a longitudinal study of conversion to Islam by Dutch women. People who recently convert might firmly hold on to their new convictions, not providing space for doubts and uncertainty, whereas studying the long-term process also gives insights into moments of weak belief, doubts, and ambivalence, or growing faith and spirituality. Not only these…
Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands
Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of entrepreneurship for migrants’ integration. Nonetheless, the impact of entrepreneurship on refugees’ inclusion and sense of belonging has been largely overlooked. This article explores how entrepreneurship contributes to the inclusion of Iranian refugee entrepreneurs, considering the different aspects of a refugee’s identity components such as ethnicity, age, class, gender, and religion. The li…
Introduction
The political impact-or rather the lack thereof-following the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East has been well documented
Uncovering the Self’
Since the 1980s, discourse on religious piety has taken many different forms, from mosque lessons by lay preachers—such as `Amr Khalid—to religious TV programmes and leisure activities. Within this widespread religious culture and cultivation of forms of visible piety, wearing the veil became an almost uncontested norm for women. As Saba Mahmood demonstrated, the veil became a crucial way to express and cultivate a ‘pious self’. Yet especially si…
Manhood Is Not Easy
Manhood Is Not Easy
Moving In and Out of Islam
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
Conversion and the politics of creating a “German Islam”
Conversion to Islam in the West has become a growing field of academic interest. Initially the question why people, particularly women, embraced Islam captured the attention of scholars. Female con
Iraqi women in Denmark. Ritual performance and belonging in everyday life by Pedersen, Marianne Holm
“Conversion” to Islam and the Construction of a Pious Self
Contains fulltext : 129869.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Performing Piety
In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and dedicated themselves to worship, preaching, and charity. Their public conversions were influential in spreading piety to the Egyptian upper class during the 1990s, which in turn enabled the development of pious markets for leisure and art, thus facilita…
Popularizing Islam or Islamizing popular music
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Piety, Penitence and Gender
This article examines the interrelationship between the piety movement and the phenomenon of ‘repentant' singers, dancers and actresses in Egypt. A broad piety current that existed underneath the militant Islamists has recently come to the fore. This ‘post-Islamist' movement is less overtly political in its aims and emphasises the cultivation of the pious self. Repentant artists were at the vanguard of this new pious trend in Egypt. As public fig…
Creating an Islamic cultural sphere
The public sphere in the Middle East and elsewhere is changing rapidly due to the global availability of new technologies of mass media.As a result of the growing influence of Islamist and pietistic movements in the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West, an increasing Islamization or 'pietization' (Turner 2008) of the public sphere is discernable.Also with regard to the cultural sphere attempts are made to bring art, leisure and ente…
Biography and Choice
This article assesses the relevance of the rational-choice approach for understanding female conversion to Islam in the Netherlands. Rational-choice theories are important for focusing on the increasingly pluralistic character of the religious market and the active nature of religious actors. It is argued that women are active actors who make sensible choices. Yet the rational choice conception of rationality is rather limited and the specific ch…
Repentant' artists in Egypt
This article explores the emergent public sphere in Egypt in the early 1990s by analysing the debates about the 'repentant' artists. Many artists, mostly women but also a few men, stepped down from art for religious reasons. Some of them even started to preach against art because they considered their former profession haram. The 'repentance' of so many famous performers led to fierce contestations in the media. Art became an issue par excellence…
Introduction. Gender and Conversion to Islam in the West
Women Embracing Islam
Time and migration
The cultural reproduction of group identities in a diasporic and transnational setting can be analysed by looking into the ways ritual celebrations are reconstituted. Muslim religious celebrations such as ramadan, 'id al-fitr, 'id al-adha, sha'bana, 'ashura, and 'id al-mulud are studied among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands in order to see how far they are transformed upon migration. Migration is usually perceived in spatial metaphors…
Veils and wooden clogs don't go together
n Contains fulltext :\n 61920.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
A Trade like Any Other
Veils and wooden clogs don't go together
n Contains fulltext :\n 61920.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Repentant' artists in Egypt
This article explores the emergent public sphere in Egypt in the early 1990s by analysing the debates about the 'repentant' artists. Many artists, mostly women but also a few men, stepped down from art for religious reasons. Some of them even started to preach against art because they considered their former profession haram. The 'repentance' of so many famous performers led to fierce contestations in the media. Art became an issue par excellence…
Biography and Choice
This article assesses the relevance of the rational-choice approach for understanding female conversion to Islam in the Netherlands. Rational-choice theories are important for focusing on the increasingly pluralistic character of the religious market and the active nature of religious actors. It is argued that women are active actors who make sensible choices. Yet the rational choice conception of rationality is rather limited and the specific ch…
Creating an Islamic cultural sphere
The public sphere in the Middle East and elsewhere is changing rapidly due to the global availability of new technologies of mass media.As a result of the growing influence of Islamist and pietistic movements in the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West, an increasing Islamization or 'pietization' (Turner 2008) of the public sphere is discernable.Also with regard to the cultural sphere attempts are made to bring art, leisure and ente…
Popularizing Islam or Islamizing popular music
Islam Is My Washing Line”
Although conversion is an ongoing religious journey, it is rarely studied as such. This article provides a longitudinal study of conversion to Islam by Dutch women. People who recently convert might firmly hold on to their new convictions, not providing space for doubts and uncertainty, whereas studying the long-term process also gives insights into moments of weak belief, doubts, and ambivalence, or growing faith and spirituality. Not only these…
A Trade like Any Other
Veils and wooden clogs don't go together
n Contains fulltext :\n 61920.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access)\n
Time and migration
The cultural reproduction of group identities in a diasporic and transnational setting can be analysed by looking into the ways ritual celebrations are reconstituted. Muslim religious celebrations such as ramadan, 'id al-fitr, 'id al-adha, sha'bana, 'ashura, and 'id al-mulud are studied among Moroccan immigrant women in the Netherlands in order to see how far they are transformed upon migration. Migration is usually perceived in spatial metaphors…
Introduction. Gender and Conversion to Islam in the West
Women Embracing Islam
Piety, Penitence and Gender
This article examines the interrelationship between the piety movement and the phenomenon of ‘repentant' singers, dancers and actresses in Egypt. A broad piety current that existed underneath the militant Islamists has recently come to the fore. This ‘post-Islamist' movement is less overtly political in its aims and emphasises the cultivation of the pious self. Repentant artists were at the vanguard of this new pious trend in Egypt. As public fig…
Creating an Islamic cultural sphere
The public sphere in the Middle East and elsewhere is changing rapidly due to the global availability of new technologies of mass media.As a result of the growing influence of Islamist and pietistic movements in the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West, an increasing Islamization or 'pietization' (Turner 2008) of the public sphere is discernable.Also with regard to the cultural sphere attempts are made to bring art, leisure and ente…
Biography and Choice
This article assesses the relevance of the rational-choice approach for understanding female conversion to Islam in the Netherlands. Rational-choice theories are important for focusing on the increasingly pluralistic character of the religious market and the active nature of religious actors. It is argued that women are active actors who make sensible choices. Yet the rational choice conception of rationality is rather limited and the specific ch…
Repentant' artists in Egypt
This article explores the emergent public sphere in Egypt in the early 1990s by analysing the debates about the 'repentant' artists. Many artists, mostly women but also a few men, stepped down from art for religious reasons. Some of them even started to preach against art because they considered their former profession haram. The 'repentance' of so many famous performers led to fierce contestations in the media. Art became an issue par excellence…
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Popularizing Islam or Islamizing popular music
Performing Piety
In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and dedicated themselves to worship, preaching, and charity. Their public conversions were influential in spreading piety to the Egyptian upper class during the 1990s, which in turn enabled the development of pious markets for leisure and art, thus facilita…
“Conversion” to Islam and the Construction of a Pious Self
Contains fulltext : 129869.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Iraqi women in Denmark. Ritual performance and belonging in everyday life by Pedersen, Marianne Holm
Conversion and the politics of creating a “German Islam”
Conversion to Islam in the West has become a growing field of academic interest. Initially the question why people, particularly women, embraced Islam captured the attention of scholars. Female con
Moving In and Out of Islam
With empirical case studies from Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, this anthology opens a new field of study by exploring people’s rationales for leaving, as well as converting to, Islam.
Manhood Is Not Easy
Manhood Is Not Easy
Uncovering the Self’
Since the 1980s, discourse on religious piety has taken many different forms, from mosque lessons by lay preachers—such as `Amr Khalid—to religious TV programmes and leisure activities. Within this widespread religious culture and cultivation of forms of visible piety, wearing the veil became an almost uncontested norm for women. As Saba Mahmood demonstrated, the veil became a crucial way to express and cultivate a ‘pious self’. Yet especially si…
Introduction
The political impact-or rather the lack thereof-following the revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East has been well documented
Iranian Refugee Entrepreneurship and Inclusion in the Netherlands
Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of entrepreneurship for migrants’ integration. Nonetheless, the impact of entrepreneurship on refugees’ inclusion and sense of belonging has been largely overlooked. This article explores how entrepreneurship contributes to the inclusion of Iranian refugee entrepreneurs, considering the different aspects of a refugee’s identity components such as ethnicity, age, class, gender, and religion. The li…
Islam Is My Washing Line”
Although conversion is an ongoing religious journey, it is rarely studied as such. This article provides a longitudinal study of conversion to Islam by Dutch women. People who recently convert might firmly hold on to their new convictions, not providing space for doubts and uncertainty, whereas studying the long-term process also gives insights into moments of weak belief, doubts, and ambivalence, or growing faith and spirituality. Not only these…
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · History (12 works) · Islam (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works)